President John F. Kennedy (to members of the First Armoured Division, in the Cuban Crisis) on November 26, 1962: "Many years ago, according to the story, there was found in a sentry box in Gibraltar a poem which said:
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God and the soldier, all men adore,
In time of danger and not before,
When the danger is passed and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
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This country does not forget God or the soldier. Upon both, we now depend. Thank you."—
(Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 840.)
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